the british foreign secretary arising to spearhead efforts to convince scotland its future and its oil money should stay within the u.k. . still sees its worst protests in over a decade as disputes over corruption in the extravagant cost of the football world cup a deep economic and political discontent. and criticism over the treatment of guantanamo bay detainees grows louder as doctors urge president obama independent medical examinations those on hunger strike up a notorious prison. news

and comment twenty four hours a day. the british government is beginning its charm offensive on scotland to keep it part of the u.k. foreign secretary william hague chosen this cheerleader when he's in edinburgh later to speak about why scotland and its oil money should remain ruled by london. breaks down how he's expected to convince the naysayers. mr hague's going to be trying to lay out in foreign policy terms why he feels it's preferable that scott's stay put and is still the basis of his argument is going to be this that a vote for independence is not going to be a vote for business as usual is going to bring about stances change in a suit he's going to try and highlight some of the possible negative implications that that could bring a cool sense of stance of change that's exactly what they see within the yes campaign those who want to see an independent scotland want to bring about say he's

westminster dominating economic policy dominating resources and they say they want to break that stranglehold now there's been political attack with both sides within the yes campaign for example has pointed to recent treasury reports in which is the pendants scotland was placed in the same category as iceland cyprus and ireland all of which of course have had economic crises and now those within the u.s. campaign say these sort of tactics are scaremongering to try and persuade more people to vote against independence of course no more fiercely this is the way to run independent get laid out than in the discussion when it comes to oil now this it we saw a senior member of government is missing that where school and to become independent it would have

a major resource on its hands another member of government would also go as far as to say that possibly in the past the u.k. government had downplayed the value of that asset it's quite hard to get a gauge when you hear of exactly where the school says people are placed it's quite a divided mix and you talk to people on the streets there today when that speech happens we'll be bringing you all the latest from that's and it's thought we're going. to hit that point really hernot hang that the u.k. stronger together and it's the hague will be telling scotland that it will also be a faith based scotland but of course they sit in the s.n.p. they sit in the yes campaign saying they're still everything to play for. all recent polls suggest about a third of scots support independence compared to fifty nine percent who want to remain in the u.k. and scottish m.p.'s macneil insists the nation can do well on its own both financially and politically london should be well practiced in this the empire has

gone the colonies have gone about fifty nations have become independent of london london's in old hundred this and ireland moved on doesn't want to come back even the tiny island man of the coast of the u.k. doesn't want to be ruled from london either. you know they're going through a process and that may be good for a learning curve the find it difficult yet again but of course the practicalities to consider as well and how you're going to fund yourself is the. balance the books the u.k. government releases this paper warning scotland will suffer a banking collapse just like cyprus or island if it becomes independent. the united kingdom government should be well aware that they haven't funded themselves as two thousand and one is twelve years they haven't balance the books scotland is actually eight point four percent of you keep operation paying nine point nine percent of the taxation of the u.k. we're very confident we can pay when we are but incidentally we also believe england can too one thing is certain this independence of scotland is going through like the other hundred forty two you know that went through in the past scotland is probably the best planned ever i can think of another nation that's gone through so

much planning and so much cross-examination in the lead up to its independence so all bodes well for the future on the scaremongering story such as how could scotland pay for itself for goodness sakes it's absolute nonsense. well meanwhile britain's bankers are in trouble yet again the financial regulator warns there is a gaping twenty seven billion pound hole in the balance sheets that needs to be filled out the details are coming your way shortly. a massive protests refused to die down in brazil despite the government backtracking on plans to increase the cost of public transport activists are angry at what they claim is widespread corruption in extravagant spending and the upcoming football world cup event to carry out their biggest demonstrations yet on thursday nothing new to the reports. brazil is still under pressure due to the unprecedented public protests which have been taking place all over the country for the past ten days

conflicts more to support the cell bhalo where there have been recent violent riots as the demonstrators try to take over the local government's main building where they faced off with the police the brazilian government said it will deploy the national public security force in five cities hosting the fee for football tournament in an effort to contain the own going protests in the city of four to listen at least two people have been injured near a city and were riot police attempted to prevent them from entering the site the demonstrators flint after being tear gassed to demonstrate are smain grievances the increasing public transport fees in several brazilian cities and also the extraordinary public but for the two thousand and fourteen world cup a.t.t.'s including sao paulo and rio de janeiro have been forced by the demonstrations to abundant and transport free rice however thousands of people that have been joining

the protests have introduced new complaints towards president dilma rousseff government such as what day defined as the poor conditions of the education and health care systems president rousseff started that she was impressed with the demonstrations which according to her are taken into account by her government says they represent the country has a working democracy however protesters have decided to remain on the streets and organize your rallies until definitive solution to their concerns is found. well take a look at what you think is the root cause behind the unrest in brazil where that party dot com today well let's have a look almost half of you forty seven percent blame the government for inefficiency and corruption over a quarter say it's the result of a foreign plot to destabilize latin america. look if if percent if you believe it's due to the recent hike in public transport fees and the cost of state of the world cup and

a minority today think the unrest is due to the global economic slowdown we had to r.t. dot com the cost of it rather force feeding of prisoners at guantanamo bay has led some doctors to call a facilities medical staff not to force feed detainees but allow them to continue their hunger strike the world medical association has declared the procedure is ethically unacceptable and believes those starving themselves need to have their injustices addressed and it is a kind of course. the way and the world medical association demand access for independent doctors to guantanamo detainees more than one hundred fifty doctors including from the u.s. have signed an open letter to grok obama urging him to allow guantanamo detainees access to independent medical examinations and advice here's what they write it is clear that the detainees do not trust their military doctors they have very good reason for this as you should know from the current protocols of the joint task force guantanamo which those doctors are ordered to follow the orders they receive

or ultimately orders as their commander in chief without trust safe and acceptable medical care of mentally competent patients is impossible for the above mentioned protocols described the procedure of force feeding that the doctors are obliged to administer at guantanamo it involves a tube inserted through the nose and down the throat of the detainees on hunger strike and those who are being force fed at guantanamo describe it as a very painful procedure to which they gave no consent actually it is the opinion of the u.n. commission on human rights that force feeding is a lawful and torture when it's clear that it's a protest and a last resort for the detainees because before the hunger strike became impossible to ignore one ton of the was out of sight out of mind and washington was happy to keep it that way the u.n. has repeatedly called on the obama administration to stop the practice of force feeding and fix the underlying issue of this hunger strike which is indefinite detention the entire international community has called on the us to either try

these people or let them go shopping tubes down their noses doesn't fix the problem . and the number of going town of bay detainees being force fed has been growing rapidly over the past few months according to prison officials in march this year out of thirty seven hunger strikers the eleven we're receiving intestinal feeds fast forward a month and you have a dramatic increase jumping to one hundred hunger strikers with twenty one being force fed and last month three more people join the hunger strike and fifteen more were given food against their will or this brings us to june with one hundred four prisoners refusing food and forty four being force fed my colleague to bring let's say earlier spoke to dr frank arnold the author of the letter sent to president obama he says what's going on behind bars amounts to torture. can you talk about the short and long term. i guess if they all fled this sort of treatment all this

sort of procedure what appears to be happening is that when detainees wait or health deteriorates to an alarming degree they are force fed up to a state of rosarito not complete and then allowed to starve themselves again with the scariest thing of all is a drug called mr cooper by which is normally used for north and vomit is being administered to these people in ways that are in violation of good practice and are potentially dangerous this is a drug which over the long term is known to cause neurological damage which may be from. demonstrators in turkey enjoy another night of heavy policing as a ruling party m.p. tells the press than is being provoked by extremists plaguing the protest movement that's just ahead.

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back now another large protest has been dispersed overnight by police using water cannons in turkey's capital ankara this after wednesday saw dozens of arrests across the country as authorities bid to stop the three weeks long unrest. witnessed the latest crackdown. this crossroads in the center of ankara was filled with protesters just a few minutes before it might be hard to believe but now it's totally empty you can see one of the police vehicles up there still using its water cannon against the remaining few protesters the police charged in here with two vehicles firing tear gas everyone in the square choking on that having to dive for cover and water

cannon blasting everything around they've left branches funding or trees and debris and water all over the streets protesters who had been gathered to try and demonstrate their anger at having to scatter into side streets all around here very shocked by the sudden on rush of these police vehicles this particular spot has marked nightly confrontations between police and protesters some might say some onlookers might say really proving what protesters might be saying that the police really overreacting some of the protests here it's not quite known what exactly did set off the police but protesters absolutely saying it's this kind of pretty police response that has them out on the streets protesting in the first place mr erdogan and his supporters for their part calling some of the protesters terrorists implicating possible foreign involvement in their funding and saying that they

don't represent a large part of the turkey turkish populace he does have a fair point in that around half of the turkish populace polls indicate do support him. and tom barton caught up with an m.p. for turkey's ruling party chart he said police were being forced to resort to tougher measures against the protesters. this thing was shared between protesters and troublemakers and members of illegal organizations were trying to create havoc within and within the city of stumble and some other cities in turkey. the police has a lawful rights to use. the law given means to them to disperse of these troublemakers and vandals and now. if you're looking for a balanced i would say the police has to has to act within its law given powers that is a balance for the police however decisions who are trying to use their democratic

rights to protest have to do this peacefully if you're resorting to violence and using malt of coke tails and other kinds of weaponries against officials who are. given the duty by the state to protect public order then of course these law these law enforcement officers have the right to use the force that is given to them by law within the law. obeying he's a truck cheney who took part in angry protests says police are targeting peaceful protesters and extremists indiscriminately. protests turn into like just having a protest so people don't like just like stand and stare at a place for like you know a couple of. that's like hell for the hour and hour and then they like this is how we try to continue to protest of course there is

a fire going all very like you know there are some people who try to use this situation and try to express or do extreme things totally. doesn't differentiate like. citizens just using their democracy democratic rights and the walls that they're trying to stone on r.t. don't call them right now the world's fastest growing economic giant to go to extremes to clean the future as china introduces the truth for those who do to break the nation's environmental protection rules. online right now megaupload from the dot com accuses the u.s. government of what he calls not just a massacre of the data in the history of the internet on its own t. dot com. britain's banks need to find twenty seven billion pounds to fill a gaping hole in their balance sheets that's according to one regulator who comes

amid calls from some to be responsible for natural bosses should be jailed for being reckless let's talk now to auntie's tyson also live for more on this more bad news for bankers that. well yes it seems that way this twenty seven billion pounds that's about forty two billion u.s. dollars that banks need to find to fill in that gaping hole is what financial regulators had found basing it on the new guidelines that was agreed upon by international central banks after the two thousand and eight financial crisis if we remember we saw then the collapse of some of the world's biggest financial institutions some of the media bailouts taxpayers' money getting involved there and this report that we know that the guideline says that now two percent previously two percent of the equity that banks should have has been raised to seven percent thereby creating this hole in the balance sheets of what concerns financial regulators most right now is the world like of scotland r.b.s. having a thirteen point six a billion pound

a hole to plug and let's not forget r.b.s. is already eighty one percent old by the government after having received a bailout so this is certainly a sensitive topic when it comes to the bank banking or performance and how they actually manage their finances and this is again on the back of that report coming from an independent commission set up to investigate behavior of reckless behavior as you pointed out called changing the banking of for good at this if it is passed into law could mean that some baxter's bankers that are accused of reckless behavior could be sent to jail it also questions puts accountability of governments and regulators to implement these laws so as not to render all of them but useless so in trying to find a twenty seven billion a palace the question there is will the measures that the banks have already put forward r.b.s. and barclays saying they're confident they will be able to plug this hole will those measures be enough or will there be

a need to go again to external funding and once taxpayers' money gets involved it will certainly a few hit a few nerves that once again the question is who is going to be footing the bill at the end of the day. the question. global big business is gathering in st petersburg discuss what's happening in the world's economy with russia's political and business elites business correspondent is there and joins us now. ok to tell us what's topping the agenda today that. they care what we've already been speaking about tax evasion the federal reserve tapering their stimulus measures that's really what people are telling about today and also the conflicts to do with energy as well that's what we're really going to focus in upon now and just really the all take right now is seen as

a lifeline in these growing times of energy the montanists front all economy that we're in at the moment so right now i've got maria found a haven to talk about this the head of the i.a.e.a. from a seed in special energy agency so tell me do you think that the key arctic nations will work together to use these resources o.t.c. potential competition and complex coming as a result of everyone trying to get in on that well i hope to work together and i think it's important they work together because everybody is looking at the arctic so magnifying glasses so what ever happens there will be scrutinized immediately and will be seen immediately by the world so i think it's of course supports and other countries in the gates of the arctic and having been part of the arctic are working together a lot about china that because we know that china wants to get a foothold into the arctic if it does manage to do that do you think that the balance of power will change the point is that whatever happens with or without

china there there will there will be this need for cooperation and if there will be expertise gas and oil in the arctic with or without china you have to do with in an environmentally sustainable way otherwise it doesn't work what we can see now is that china is coming into markets in many parts of the world it's not only in the arctic it's in iraq. it's even in canada it's another is in africa and that is because there's a huge demand for energy in the in asia and especially in china and how fall could be competition between the competing nations guy how far do you think that for you this you need quite some specific technology for being. called for drilling in the arctic for piquancy now it's only in the field and both on yankel and i've been there i would there we really see what's what's happening up there gazprom is saying is doing this so that kind of technology is has to be used but has also to

be sold the developed because it's very very difficult it's difficult because as well know for us it's difficult because of the situation as such and of other and for and fundamental concerns and it's difficult because the whole world is watching and turn developed countries continue with these economic blockades against countries like iran in these tough economic times the point of course is what's going to happen in iran with a change of leadership with the change of the well with the result of the elections and that's something you will see everybody is is very aware of well preaching is something of practice and might be something else but of course we are monitoring the situation we are not. agency not a political organization but we are monitoring what's happening there and we have seen in the past year that is because of the sanctions around million barrels a day of oil did not come to market iranian oil and to support the sea is strict

economic punishment have a place in the well today. if i would still be a minister of the netherlands and. i could answer your question from a political point if you director of an international energy agency that's not my job right you have to remain in power so exactly all right maria vanda hyphen thank you very much indeed for your time today headed. see i am going to be here all day with exclusive interviews on economics and politics as well so do join me then kerry. ok thanks so much indeed k.c. for that well up next off the short break it's i'll be martin breaking the sets.

track approval ratings of the presidents of various countries by did though they still research the approval ratings of former presidents twice like gallup poll that says that george w. bush has been slowly growing in his approval numbers since leaving office in fact his numbers have increased by seventeen percent amongst independents and even his inferior rival democratic voters have given him fourteen percentage points of popularity i think this may be due to the fact that obama's magic has worn off and people are getting fed up with things a longing for the bush days is insane if you are one of the people who has recently decided that bush is awesome and please tell me how he differs from obama true obama can pronounce ninety nine percent of the words on a teleprompter in front of him but both presidents have let expensive wars with questionable objectives bush gave us the patriot act and obama continued it with the n.d.a. both of them seem to like their drones and massive government spending and expansion i don't know i don't think that just because obama's rules flawed that somehow makes bush's brain into some sort of triumph but that's just my opinion.

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i'm abby martin and this is breaking the sets you know turkey isn't the only place that seen thousands protesting in recent weeks brazil is also been hosting protests in several cities around the country including its capital sao paulo most of the protests have been peaceful but a few like last weeks have turned violent hundred people were injured in tear gas and rubber bullets and a hundred twenty were arrested after clashes with police the demonstrations began after the government announced a hike in public transportation rates but of then grown into a greater call and change brazil's government brazilians have been questioning the government's priorities when it comes to taxes and spending the country hosting the world cup next year many people have seen their tax dollars wasted in preparation for the event meanwhile the people argue that they aren't seeing any improvements in brazil vacation health care and public transportation problems and in response

president dilma rousseff has said quote the voices of the streets must be. heard in that she's committed to social transformation but other government officials seem more interested in squashing the dissent and they're lacking a unified message opposition to protesters is also present in the media there just check out this clip from one brazilian newscast where they're taking a poll from viewers real time of whether or not they support the uprising. desson is that what you mean this is the deal. would you put it best. you could well let's just be because. it wasn't that funny as hard as that newscasters trying to weigh the poll against the demonstrations the numbers just keep rising in favor of them so that poll is an indication of the sentiment across the entire country these protests won't be anytime soon so let's break the set.